Our week

This week has been a bit off for us since we spent the first half of it sick. The kids and I were on our way to Ella Ann's birthday party Saturday morning when Alexia threw up in her car seat...about three times in 2 minutes. It was BAD. We quickly turned around and went home. Diego had been looking forward to the party for several days and was so excited to go. When I told him that we could not go to the party because Alexia was sick he said "Okay mami." He was so sweet and understanding that we had to take care of Alexia. When I told Alexia we couldn't go, she started crying "pastel! pastel!" (cake, cake). She did not want to miss the cake.
She was back to normal within an hour and we had a great weekend, but then Sunday night it hit me...but worse. I was really sick all Sunday night and then when I woke up Monday morning feeling like I'd been hit by a truck, Diego started throwing up. Great! So, our Monday was spent on the couch, in our jammies, eating saltine crackers. The kids were very cooperative and despite being sick, it was a surprisingly good day.
On Tuesday we were back to health, but just running on low speed. On Tuesday evening we headed over to our friend's place to celebrate Abby's 1st birthday. Diego and Alexia adore Abby and were so excited to be celebrating with her.
Yesterday we went to bible study in the morning. Diego and Alexia should be in two separate classes, but they love being together so this week Alexia went to the big kid class with Diego and did great. She had her own arts and crafts project to show off to me and had a great time. After bible study we went to pick up Asher, Adeline and Hartly and brought them home to play for awhile. It is great how easy having 5 kids has become!
Today Diego had sports class and Alexia had gymnastics. I took my camera with me to take videos and left it in my purse (argh!) so, hopefully next week you will get to see the lil' star in action :)
We decided that tonight would be family movie night. We started this tradition several months ago and do it about once a month. We cover our bed with a huge blanket, pick up pizza and eat dinner on our bed while watching the movie. Today was the first time that I took the kids to Blockbuster to choose the movie (Ricardo usually does it). I told Diego he could choose absolutely any movie he wanted from the two aisles of "family" titles. There were countless options and he had a blast looking at them all. When he came across "IMAX Under the Sea" he ditched all other options and took a tight grip on that one. He was thrilled and I knew it would be a great one to please the whole family. I loved that he wanted something so real and a bit grown-up. When we walked in the door Alexia was singing "Movie time, pizza time, movie time, pizza time." We had a great evening and still had both kids in bed by 8:00pm!


Diego was really cold when he woke up this morning. He chugged his smoothie, ate a few cheerios and headed straight to the couch. He cacooned himself into the blanket and stayed there for about 20 minutes. I was tempted to get under the blanket with him!

When Alexia saw me take a picture of Diego she insisted on me taking a picture of her too. Check out her pose!

This was at Abby's birthday on Tuesday. The kids got in such a cute position to play so I grabbed the camera and after 6+ takes, I still could not get them all looking at the same time. Alexia was purposely looking away...lil' stinker!

She LOVED her cake!